Bringing IT employees from outside Europe

[mickey]

Hey all, I know this is possible. If anyone has experience I'm interested in any links to the hoops one needs to jump to provide for a sponsorship visa, and any tax implications of doing so. E.g would a foreign agency search fee be tax deductible?

Thank you.

[northernladuk]

Erm... Did you do any research first? Might have been better doing a bit first and coming with some specific questions rather than 'can someone tell me how to do it'
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...-for-employers

[stek]

Hey all, I know this is possible. If anyone has experience I'm interested in any links to the hoops one needs to jump to provide for a sponsorship visa, and any tax implications of doing so. E.g would a foreign agency search fee be tax deductible?

Thank you.

You need trading history, a sponsors licence, and perform the RLMT unless it's a shortage occupation (from the published list).

It's not a shortcut to bring mates in, they're wise to that.

[GillsMan]

My company has just successfully been granted a restricted license to allow us to convert one of our Tier 5 workers to a Tier 2 worker, giving her an additional 5 years in the country (tied to our job). She's a Canadian citizen and was here on a youth mobility visa.

First you have to become a sponsor, and pay about £500; then you need to apply for a license, and this involves a market labour test if it's not on the shortage list, then once that's granted, the rest is pretty easy.

I take my responsibilities as a sponsor extremely seriously, and so should you - there's a lot you have to do and and keep up on. You should have good HR procedures in place, proper contracts, etc so that you can demonstrate to the home office that you taking your responsibilities seriously.

[CoolCat]

My company has just successfully been granted a restricted license to allow us to convert one of our Tier 5 workers to a Tier 2 worker, giving her an additional 5 years in the country (tied to our job). She's a Canadian citizen and was here on a youth mobility visa.

First you have to become a sponsor, and pay about £500; then you need to apply for a license, and this involves a market labour test if it's not on the shortage list, then once that's granted, the rest is pretty easy.

I take my responsibilities as a sponsor extremely seriously, and so should you - there's a lot you have to do and and keep up on. You should have good HR procedures in place, proper contracts, etc so that you can demonstrate to the home office that you taking your responsibilities seriously.

Or do what everybody else does and give a manager in one of the Indian outsourcers a backhander and get them to put whoever you have in mind on their Indian payroll and bring them in on an uncapped intra company transfer, where shortage skills stuff doesn't apply, and then subcontract them from the Indian outsourcer. There is a lot more margin in it as they will be paying corporate taxes offshore in tax havens, will have expenses scams all worked out so can maximise untaxed payments, will avoid national insurance for 12 months and so on and so on.

[stek]

Or do what everybody else does and give a manager in one of the Indian outsourcers a backhander and get them to put whoever you have in mind on their Indian payroll and bring them in on an uncapped intra company transfer, where shortage skills stuff doesn't apply, and then subcontract them from the Indian outsourcer. There is a lot more margin in it as they will be paying corporate taxes offshore in tax havens, will have expenses scams all worked out so can maximise untaxed payments, will avoid national insurance for 12 months and so on and so on.

Change the fkn record, please.

[CoolCat]

Change the fkn record, please.

It's the number one hit on the hit parade.